Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

The Project window

The Project window's search bar allows us to filter for objects of a particular type by clicking on the small icon to the right of the search bar. This provides a list of different types that we can filter by revealing all the objects of that type within the entire project. However, selecting these options simply fills the search bar with a string of the t:<type> format, which applies the appropriate filter.

Thus, we can simply type the equivalent strings into the search bar for the sake of speed. For instance, typing t:prefab will filter for all Prefabs, no matter where they are in the Hierarchy window. Similarly, t:texture will reveal textures, t:scene will reveal scene files, and so on. Adding multiple search filters ...